2/3ds of all Americans live in a 4th amendment-free zone. [View all]

[Ron Obvious]

I just read about this on slashdot. Unbelievable. Apparently DHS has the right to seize and search any electronic devices within 100 miles of the border, including ocean borders. That means 2/3ds of the American population have essentially no 4th amendment protections.

I just don't understand the world I live in anymore.

DHS Watchdog OKs ‘Suspicionless’ Seizure of Electronic Devices Along Border

The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.

The DHS, which secures the nation’s border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a “Civil Liberties Impact Assessment” of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices “within 120 days.” More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive summary of its findings.

“We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits,” the executive summary

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/02/electronics-border-seizures/